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A Closer Look At 1 Samuel 3:1-7, The Great Apostasy
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Feb 20, 2025
This is probably one of the worst time in the history of the people of God. The priesthood/ leadership is corrupted, it seems as if God isn’t going to punish or deal with the ongoing apostasy. But that’s not the case since a woman’s barrenness leads her to pray an important prayer that will bring God’s judgement and mark the beginning of a revival. Today we’re going to be looking at 1 Samuel 3:1-7; it focuses on the current spiritual state of the people of God and Samuel’s Holy Call to ministry. See video Scripture References: 1 Samuel 2:12-21 1 Samuel 1:11 John 6:44 John 6:55 Romans 10:17
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hello this is taipe again and today we
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are going to look at
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first samuel 3 verse 1 to 27
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and the title of my studies and the word
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of the lord
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was rare in those days so we are going
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to be covering this chapter
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and the reason why i want to do is
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because i believe we are living in a
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time where
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there's a lot of spiritual apostasy in
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the sense that
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people don't really quite care about the
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things of god
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anymore and this is the condition that
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the people of god were under
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uh in that chapter between chapter one
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and through chapter
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four and five it talks about um the
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spiritual state of
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of the jews at the time uh under eli eli
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is the high priest and we're going to be
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looking at it today
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and we are going to be seeing the
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connection between them and us today
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okay so let's get into that i'm going to
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go to the next slide
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and i'm going to read you my quick
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introduction which i kind of gave you
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just now
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like i said this is probably the worst
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time
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in the history of the people of god the
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priesthood and leadership is corrupted
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it seems as if god isn't going to punish
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or deal with the ongoing apostasy
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but that's not the case since a woman's
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bearingness
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leads her to pray an important prayer
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that will bring
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god's judgment and mark the beginning of
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our revival
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now today we are going to be looking at
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first samuel 3 verse 1 7
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and he focuses on the current uh
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spiritual state of the people of god
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and samuels holy call to ministry so
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that's what we are going to be looking
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at
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let's go to the next slide and get into
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the
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first and verse verse one
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um says in chapter 3
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now the boy samuel was ministering to
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the lord
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in the presence of eli and the word of
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the lord
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was rare in those days there was no
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frequent vision
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now the absence of frequent vision
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indicated that the word of god
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was scarce the people of god were not
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experiencing
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the presence of god which made the
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apostasy even worse
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god's voice wasn't being heard and
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people did what they deemed
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right in their own eyes now we need to
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know why the word of the lord was rare
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now eli's sons hopefully and phineas
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they were corrupted
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and eli never corrected and disciplined
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them he never really took care of
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what was happening the leadership in the
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church had been corrupted
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because of the sinful practices that
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were utterly
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disgusting in the lord's sight and eli
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sons
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completely disrespected the offerings of
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the lord they slept with the women that
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were serving at the entrance of the the
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temple
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and they suffered no immediate uh
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consequences now
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if you recall nadab and abay who i think
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i'm not sure if this in exodus where
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they
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offered unauthorized fire to the lord
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and they burned on the spot
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now god executed them right away when
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they sinned against him
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so you can kind of contrast that and
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what's happening now in the sense that
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eli
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sons are doing something terrible they
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are they are like
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looking with contempt at the offerings
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of the lord they don't care
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they are sleeping with women and they
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are just mistreating everything in the
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holy temple
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and they don't suffer consequences so
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you can kind of see
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the the attitude behind them they're
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probably thinking you know what
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we haven't died nothing has happened to
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us
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so they are taking god lightly and
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forgetting that the patience of god
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is supposed to lead you to repentance so
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let's read on first samuel 1
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verse 12 to 21 to see exactly what eli
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sons were doing so let's let's go to
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that real quick
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i have the verse pulled up here so i'm
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going to read
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uh this section and you see how it's
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labeled
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eli's worthless sons now i don't want to
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be labeled as
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worthless so when god calls you
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worthless
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that's not good so let's see what they
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did that
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warranted such a name so the scripture
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says
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now the sons of eli were worthless men
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they did not know the lord so in god's
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eyes
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being worthless mean you don't know the
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lord because this is what scripture says
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in verse 12.
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now the sons of eli were worthless and
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he follows with
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they did not know the lord the custom of
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the priest
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with the people was that when any man
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offered sacrifice
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the priest servant would come and while
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the meat was boiling
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with three pronged fork in his hand and
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he would thrust it into the pan
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or kettle or cauldron or pot all that
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the fork brought up
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the priest would take for himself this
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is why they did a shiloh to all the
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israelites who came there
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moreover before the fat was burned the
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priest
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servant would come and say that the man
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was sacrificing
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give meat for the priest to roast or he
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would not accept boiled meat from you
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but only raw and if the man said to him
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let them burn the fat first and then
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take as much as you wish
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he will say no you must give it noun and
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if not i will take it by force
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nah think about it this is the priest
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talking thus the sin of the young man
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was very great
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in the sight of the lord for the man
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treated the offering of the lord with
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contempt
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and samuel was ministering before the
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lord a boy clothed with elenin ephrath
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and his mother used to make form a
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little rope and take to take it to him
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each year when she went up with her
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husband to offer the yearly sacrifice
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then eli will bless elkanah his wife and
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say
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may the lord give you children by this
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woman for the petition she asks for the
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lord
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of the lord so then they will return to
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their home
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indeed the lord visited henna and she
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conceived and bore
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three sons and two daughters and the boy
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samuel grew in the presence of the lord
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now if you look at this i won't give you
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the full explanation but eli's sons
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they were not doing what god had called
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them to do in the sense that
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when somebody brought the meat they they
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were supposed to allow
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the um the meat to be roasted first
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because
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the fat had to be burned first and as
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the fat was being burned
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the smell was a pleasing aroma to the
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lord so they didn't want that because
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they wanted to eat the fat with the meat
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because the fat is what gave the meat
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the taste that they wanted so they
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treated the offering of the lord with
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contempt
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they didn't care because according to
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the law of god they were supposed to
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wait
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till the meat and all the fat have been
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burned up but they didn't do that
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because they wanted to eat the best and
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the choices meet
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and thus they completely disrespected
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the offering of the lord
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and then on top of that they were
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sleeping with the women that were
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serving at the entrance of the altar i
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mean
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their sin was this great okay so i'm
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gonna i'm just
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giving you a picture of what what's
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going on in in the in in the temple
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at the time like the leadership is
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completely corrupted and
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eli fails to correct the problem he
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tells his kids but they're not listening
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to him and he doesn't do anything about
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it he just let it go
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so you can kind of see the attitude they
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are doing all these things and god is
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not bringing this
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swift judgment so they're thinking we
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can get away with it
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we've been doing this for years and
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nothing has happened we are not like
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made up of
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so god is god is okay with me i don't
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fear god because he hasn't done anything
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so
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there's this kind of um relaxed attitude
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where
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it's like well i don't even think all
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that god stuff is true because
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if he was then we would have died right
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now i said nothing has happened so you
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can kind of see the
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attitude creeping in there okay so let's
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go back to the slide
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so this is what's happening
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so even though god didn't punish the
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saints immediately
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the absence of vision should have been a
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clue that he wasn't pleased with their
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lack of repentance
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over their ongoing sin in the leadership
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because god will ultimately judge and
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deal with sin
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because he's righteous the thing is this
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they should have learned a lesson
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scripture says and the word of the lord
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was rare in those days
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there was no frequent vision in a sense
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that there was so much sin
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that god's presence was scarce remember
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what scripture says in
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in the beatitudes right blessed are they
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pure in heart for they shall see god
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okay so the lack of vision the lack of
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the word of the lord was shown that he
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wasn't pleased
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with the people okay so this is what we
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are dealing with at this moment so let's
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go on to the next
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slide so samuel
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favored by god if you go back to verse 2
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scripture says
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at that time eli whose eyesight had
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begun to grow them so he could not see
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was lying down in his own place the lamp
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of god had not yet gone out
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and samuel was lying down in the temple
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of the lord
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where the ark of god was now as i was
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mentioning earlier
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just because god isn't acting on our
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timetable doesn't mean that he
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isn't going to deal with sin so i want
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you to pay attention to the highlighted
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phrases
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eli for example he is sleeping in his
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own place
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i suppose his house and a young samuel
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who is probably maybe 10 or 12 years old
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at the time he's lying down in the
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temple of the lord
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and not only that but next to the ark of
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god
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now here's the thing you need to pay
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attention
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only one time was anyone allowed in the
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holy of holies because that's where the
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ark of god was
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okay only one time the year the day of
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atonement
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that's when the high priest was allowed
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in the holy of holies
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and not only that because when he went
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in there he had to throw incense in the
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air so that when
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the glory of god came he wouldn't be
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killed now imagine this
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young samuel sleeps in the holy of
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holies
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and somehow that's accepted
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that's acceptable like eli is not saying
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no young man you can't sleep here
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now how samuel ended up there is beyond
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my comprehension i don't know how
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because
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according to the law no one was allowed
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there but it shows something else it
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shows
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first that the people were so irreverent
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that they didn't care
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well second it shows that god had highly
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favored samuel because he did not die
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as a result now how do we know that
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samuel had found favor
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in the sight of the lord let's take a
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look at verse four and six
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and that will give us uh the clue
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okay we're gonna go to verse four and
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six now if you go to verse four what did
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scripture says
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then the lord called samuel and he said
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here i am
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and went to eli and said here i am for
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you call me but he said
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i did not call lie down again so he went
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and lay down and the lord called again
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samuel
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and samuel rose and went to eli and said
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here i am
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for you called me well he said i did not
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call my son lie down again
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now the reason why samuel couldn't lie
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next to the ark of
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of god and not perish is because god had
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already sealed him and ordained him
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prior to his birth now if you go back to
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um chapter one
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verse uh first time in one verse eleven
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this is what
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hannah samuel's mother says she prayed a
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prayer she said this
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she vowed to vow and said o lord of
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hosts if you will indeed to look on the
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affliction of your servant and remember
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me
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and not forget your servant i will give
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to your servant a son
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then i will give him to the lord all the
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days of his life and no razor
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shall touch his head so samuel had been
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ordained before his birth because his
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mother prayed for him because remember
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she was barren she couldn't have any
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children
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and she prayed into the temple she went
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into the temple prayed and prayed and
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god gave her that prayer because
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that prayer was birthed from a desire
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coming from god himself
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because god was calling samuel before he
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was even born he had prepared him
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so he had god's favor okay so god had
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already called sami from his mother's
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womb
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and now the lord was officially calling
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him to ministry
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verse 7 tells us on the following like
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we're gonna read verse seven now
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let's let's let's keep going now verse
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seven says
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now samuel did not yet know the lord
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and the word of the lord had not yet
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been revealed to him and this is
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important to understand like
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the call of god okay now the reason why
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samuel didn't recognize the voice of the
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lord is because
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samuel did not know the lord and this
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because
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the word of god had not yet been
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revealed to him
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romans 10 7 says faith comes by hearing
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and hearing by the word of god
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basically god is the one who initiates
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confirms
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establishes and completes our calling
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from beginning
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to end remember what the scripture says
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the righteous
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shall live by faith right and romans 1
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also say somewhere
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for the righteousness of god is revealed
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from faith
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and for faith because god is the one who
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produces the faith to believe in him and
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god is the one who produces the faith
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to trust in him he initiates all things
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he begins the call and
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ends it he completely he
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he starts it and finishes it and he
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reveals
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himself to samuel samuel didn't have to
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go
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look for god because god is the one that
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does the calling
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because samuel would never be able to
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serve and know the lord
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apart from god perfecting that in him
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i don't want to use excessive words to
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explain this but this verse is showing
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us that our salvation
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is 100 percent the work of the godhead
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from beginning to end now if you look at
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john 6
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44 scripture says no one can come to me
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this is jesus speaking unless the father
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who sent me draws him
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listen to that again no one can come to
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me
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unless the father who sent me draws him
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this is jesus speaking
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and john 6 65 seconds that he says this
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is why i told you that no one can come
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to me
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unless it is granted him by the father
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the reason why you believe in jesus and
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actually are serving jesus today is
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because
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god chose to reveal the word of the lord
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to you
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because apart from that you are dead in
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sin in your transgressions
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so we can't we can't accept god
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unless the spirit himself does the work
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of regeneration in our heart and mind to
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to make us love the things of god
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because by nature
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we hate god
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we are born with a bias the bias is this
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we don't like the things of god we don't
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love the things of god
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we love ourselves and then god has to do
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the what he changes our the disposition
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of our heart he changes our mindset he
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changes everything through his holy
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spirit
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and reveals the beauty of jesus christ
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and we receive it by faith and we say
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damn everything else i want god
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so the only reason why you and i can
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receive the salvation is because god
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himself has called us by his grace
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because he's undeserved because you and
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i by nature we are objects of wrath we
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deserve god's wrath but he calls us
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because of his mercy
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and extend his grace to us and gives us
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the grace and the faith to believe
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the truth and then we see the beauty of
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jesus christ and we accept this
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sacrifice and we mourn over our sin
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because now for the first time
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we realize how much we've offended god
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guys this is important to understand
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these things okay
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this is very very important to
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understand these truths because we're
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living in the day and age where
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you've been told that are a good person
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that god
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loves you that god's love is
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unconditional
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if god's love was unconditional jesus
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wouldn't have to die on the cross
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it's because of our sins okay god
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put his son on the cross because of you
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and i what we did we committed sins
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against him
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and what we deserve is his wrath okay
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god is not saving you from hell he's
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saving you from his wrath
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yes he saved me from hell but what i'm
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saying is this is the wrath of god that
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is coming to you
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and god wants to save you from his wrath
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and today if you hear his voice i will
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encourage you to listen
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and say lord forgive me of my sins
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and give me the grace and the faith
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trust
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in your finished work on the cross
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through jesus christ that's the only way
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we have
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that's all we have that's the only
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savior that we have
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there is no other name under heaven by
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which a man can be saved by the name of
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jesus christ
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so don't let anybody fool you this is
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serious
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we're living in a very very very bad
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time now this is the worst time
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in our history now apostasy the church
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is corrupted
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leaders don't even care to preach the
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truth
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they're just preaching a cotton candy
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gospel telling you god loves you
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yes god loves you enough to reveal
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himself to you through his son
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so that you may change your ways
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salvation comes and it produces fruit in
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your life so if you have no fruits of
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the spirit
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don't make any mistake you're not saved
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because the scripture says
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by their fruits you will know them i'm
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not telling you anything i haven't gone
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through myself
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don't believe the lie god is real
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and this and the wrath is real don't let
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anybody fool you on it
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this is real steph and if you hear his
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voice today i would encourage you to
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repent and say lord please forgive me
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because we have forgotten what it means
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to mourn over our sin
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we don't mourn over our sins we actually
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brought over our sins we want to tell
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people about how bad we were and jesus
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came to save us
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we really want people to hear the bad
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things that we do so kind of see our bad
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reputation
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in the process we throw in the gospel a
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little bit but we really want them to
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know what we've done
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to kind of make us look like yeah i used
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to be a bad man and then god came and
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saved me
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that means you haven't truly won over
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your sin when you really blow over your
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sins and just talk about it
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with just no shame when you truly
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understand that those sins and those
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things that you committed
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led jesus to bleed and die and be
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separated from his dad
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because of your sins and my sins and you
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understand that he did this
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to save you from the wrath of god then
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the ultimate
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response is to fall on your knees and
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say whoa i
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am
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please i want you to pay attention
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because there's too many
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lies out there false gospels there are
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promises
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prosperity everything will be all right
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god is okay with you
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nah make no mistake god is holy he's
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holding two ways he's holy because he's
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set apart
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and he's holy because he's morally
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perfect
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and this is what he came to do to make
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us holy because he said
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i am holy so i'll make you holy because
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i'm holy you shall be holy
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and god is in the process of sanctifying
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you according to first says
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thessalonians
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4 chapter 4 i think verse 3 says this is
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the will of god
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your sanctification if there's no
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sanctification in your life
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you are not saved this is serious guys
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and i want you to really take this
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seriously and i'll see you next time
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thank you
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you